After two decades based in the US, Durkin has returned to Australia and is poised to star in one of Britten's darkest works.

Hannah Reilly and Megan Washington discuss their new musical The Deb, which they hope will leave you feeling much lighter than when you entered the theatre.

Tania de Jong discusses the creation of the new musical based on the lives of her grandparents, Austrian/Australian sculptor Karl Duldig and his artist/inventor wife Slawa Horowitz-Duldig.

The Telstra Rising Star and People's Choice Awards were presented during the curtain call at the Sydney opening of The Australian Ballet's Anna Karenina.

There's not much about the Phantom that Guy Simpson doesn't know, having worked on 15 productions since 1990, so how has he approached OA's Sydney Harbour production?

For the first time since the scholarship was introduced in 2008, two mid-career designers have been honoured.

Perth-born tenor Louis Hurley will take up a two-year scholarship thanks to a new partnership with The Humanity Foundation.

This spectacular new production is inventively staged, with some stellar performances that will take your breath away.

Artistic Director Tina Arena announces the full program, while the festival's Variety Gala takes to the stage tonight with a taste of what's to come.

The latest arts appointments and departures

The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.

Leah Purcell discusses her new film, which is based on Henry Lawson’s short story The Drover’s Wife, but told from the perspective of an Indigenous woman in a radical, important reimagining.